pytest-advanced

SKILL.md

Master pytest's advanced features for scalable, maintainable test suites.

| Parallel execution | pytest-xdist with --dist loadscope | | Marker strategy | Category (smoke, integration) + Resource (db, llm) | | Fixture scope | Function default, session for expensive setup | | Plugin location | conftest.py for project, package for reuse | | Async testing | pytest-asyncio with auto mode |

custom-markers Keywords: pytest markers, test categorization, smoke tests, slow tests Solves: Categorize tests, run subsets in CI, skip expensive tests

Advanced pytest patterns including custom markers, plugins, hooks, parallel execution, and pytest-xdist. Use when implementing custom test infrastructure, optimizing test execution, or building reusable test utilities. Source: yonatangross/orchestkit.

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